Morgan County Correctional Complex
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| Location | 541 Wayne Cotton Morgan Drive Wartburg, Tennessee |
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| Status | open |
| Security class | Maximum |
| Capacity | 2500 |
| Opened | 1980 |
| Managed by | Tennessee Department of Corrections |
Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCX) is a Maximum security prison in unincorporated Morgan County, near Wartburg, Tennessee, operated by the Tennessee Department of Correction. It opened in 1980. An expansion completed in 2009 increased its capacity to 2,500 prisoners. The prison is accredited by American Correctional Association. The current warden is Mike Parris.[1]
When the Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex closed in June 2009, its functions and most inmates and staff were transferred to the Morgan County Correctional Complex.[2][3]
Notable prisoners[]
- Byron Looper - murderer and former politician; was held at Morgan County at the time of his death in 2013.
- Perry March - former Nashville lawyer convicted in 2006 of killing his wife ten years earlier; currently incarcerated at Morgan County.[4]
- Brandon Vandenburg - rapist in Vanderbilt rape case
- was sentenced to death in 2003 for stabbing a prison counselor at Hardeman County Correctional Center. He used a homemade knife, stabbing him 36 times until the knife broke. Hugueley had killed before: his mother in 1986 and then a prison inmate in 1992. He tried to take the life of another prisoner in 1998.
References[]
- ^ [1], Tennessee Department of Correction.
- ^ Brushy Mountain Closing Ceremony Archived 2009-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, Tennessee Department of Correction press release, June 2009
- ^ Todd South, Bars closing on Brushy Mountain after 113 years, Chattanooga Times Free Press, April 5, 2009
- ^ "Perry A. March". Tennessee Department of Correction. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
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Coordinates: 36°06′48″N 84°32′21″W / 36.11333°N 84.53917°W
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